Factors Influencing Preventive COVID-19 Practices of Primary School Teachers in Aojiang Town, China
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Prevention, COVID-19, Primary school teacherAbstract
The aims of this research are to examine preventive COVID-19 practices and identify related factors to primary school teachers’ preventive COVID-19 practices during COVID-19 pandemic in Aojiang town, China. The sample size was calculated, totally 300 primary school teachers from a total of 547 teachers from the 8 primary schools were selected by proportional stratified random sampling. Cross-sectional survey study was employed for the research. The questionnaire was tested for validity by 3 experts with IOC more than 0.5 and reliability by 30 secondary school teachers with Chronbach’s alpha of 0.84. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, t-test and multiple regressions by SPSS. The findings were the high preventive COVID-19 practices of teachers. The factors influencing preventive COVID-19 practices were perception and social support of teachers. The recommendations were as follow: schools should promote preventive COVID-19 practices to make perceptions. The school, community and family should
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